Example sentences of "[prep] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After years he had lost his oldest and best friend but in a way he had always despised friendship ; families were what mattered , more particularly that larger version of himself — his family ; and while seated in the same scheming fury he saw each individual member gradually slipping away out of his reach . |
| 2 | I could not help feeling that this particular meeting of ours proved a milestone , at least for me ; and thereafter I found it easier to get through to him , as in after years I sometimes needed to do , on that wavelength . |
| 3 | After a couple of years they adopted a child which they named Peggy , of whom he was very fond . |
| 4 | As couples live together over a period of years they will find more and more areas where decisions can be made without consultation because they will understand a lot of each other 's interests and desires . |
| 5 | Over the past couple of years they have waited patiently while the Microsoft and IBM products converged . |
| 6 | These entries are reminiscent of the leases mentioned in some probate inventories , the wording of which occasionally implies that they were valued on the basis of the number of years they still had to run , calculated perhaps as a proportion of the original fines . |
| 7 | After a couple of years they would be exchanged for someone else of sufficiently high position . |
| 8 | Bees navigate using the sun , and for millions of years they have used polarised light to locate their guide on cloudy days . |
| 9 | For a number of years they have been producing the yachts in their range in both standard and Master versions , the latter being more luxuriously appointed and intended for private ownership . |
| 10 | In addition the following details were known about each driver : age , sex , annual mileage , and the number of years they had held a driving licence . |
| 11 | With the passing of years they now have the help of their daughter Anne and son-in-law Hugh . |
| 12 | For a number of years they did have but er |
| 13 | integrating cos squared just to get to that stage they had thousands of years they were full time professionals did nothing else but it . |
| 14 | Over the past couple of years we have seen application tools embrace the facilities offered by the Windows front end or graphics user interfaces ( GUIs ) . |
| 15 | In a couple of years we 'll be outnumbered . ’ |
| 16 | He suggests the millions of years we spent as reptiles are what have kept the myth of the dragon alive in the art and literature of the world , and this theory also has a physiological basis . |
| 17 | Er , you know , saying that we 've firmed up the policy now , when erm I think a couple of years we were perhaps somewhere different . |
| 18 | One thing we did discuss at committee but I think it ought to be put to the A G M we discussed the increase in the cost of er , admission erm we held our prices down for at least a couple of years we had a heavy outlay on cushions I do feel that erm we ought to put in to the meeting what we discussed at committee that be raised from two fifty and one twenty five to three pounds and two pounds for the concessions including students and erm the youngsters . |
| 19 | In a few hundreds , or at most thousands , of years we have gone from wolf to Pekinese , Bulldog , Chihuahua and Saint Bernard . |
| 20 | Every couple of years we would rewrite the address book , leaving out those items not referenced in the index and up-date the index ( or write another one ) . |
| 21 | OVER the last number of years we , the Liverpool fans , have been accused by many ( including TTW&R ) of being obsessed with Manchester United . |
| 22 | For a number of years we have been trying to upgrade the quality of our business , in terms of the technical content of products , the level of design we build in and the price we charge . |
| 23 | well erm , I 'll see if this one 's a boy , probably in a couple of years we might try for a girl , I do n't know |
| 24 | And the young lads are listening and learning erm so hopefully , in a couple of years we 'll have a good side over here . |
| 25 | Then for a couple of years she helped set up a women 's bookshop and café run on high but unmanageable collective principles . |
| 26 | For a couple of years she and I had knocked around the Mediterranean , then I had sailed her across the Atlantic . |
| 27 | One must n't give in to pessimism , and it 's pointless to look too far ahead , but in a couple of years she wo n't even be legal . |
| 28 | But mostly it was directed towards herself , and whatever it was in her that seemed to respond to some call given out by the least suitable of men ; despite what she 'd been through in the past couple of years she appeared to have learned precisely nothing . |
| 29 | She was sandy-haired and rather fat and usually wore blue or grey tweeds , though with the passage of years she had become comfortably indifferent to dress . |
| 30 | In the past couple of years he has started buying up small collections of 30 or 40 , but his weekly forays around antique fairs are now yielding only three or four new designs a year . |